Green Reads Book Club

Join the Ojai Valley Green Coalition, local journalist Kit Stolz, and ecologist and environmental educator Dr. David White for a discussion of Carbon, a book by bestselling author Paul Hawken on the flow of carbon, regenerative lifeways, and digging deeper into the roots of the climate crisis. Join us for an inspiring discussion that will help us understand this elemental building block of life in a whole new way.

We will meet at the community room of St. Andrew's. Get your copy at your local library, at Bart's Books here in Ojai, or order online from Abe Books.

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Carbon is the only element that animates the entirety of the living world. Though comprising a tiny fraction of Earth’s composition, our planet is lifeless without it. Yet it is maligned as the driver of climate change, scorned as an errant element blamed for the possible demise of civilization.

Here, Paul Hawken looks at the flow of life through the lens of carbon. Embracing a panoramic view of carbon’s omnipresence, he explores how this ubiquitous and essential element extends into every aperture of existence and shapes the entire fabric of life. Hawken charts a course across our planetary history, guiding us into the realms of plants, animals, insects, fungi, food, and farms to offer a new narrative for embracing carbon’s life-giving power and its possibilities for the future of human endeavor.

In this stirring, hopeful, and deeply humane book, Hawken illuminates the subtle connections between carbon and our collective human experience and asks us to see nature, carbon, and ourselves as exquisitely intertwined—inseparably connected.